Rob Reuss
CEO And Chief Engineer at Elemental Controller
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRob Reuss is a product-focused technology leader and hands-on engineer with two decades of experience blending CTO-level architecture, technical communications, and shipping production software. Now CEO and Chief Engineer of SimplyFormed, he builds tools to let people reclaim and analyze their social content, while also maintaining notable open-source Swift projects like VirtualGameController and a lightweight network controller used for robotics telemetry. His background is unusually interdisciplinary—two doctoral pursuits in English and Sociology and years teaching cultural theory—informing a user-centered approach to generative AI and digital identity. Comfortable across iOS, server stacks and embedded Linux, he repeatedly moves between strategic roles and solo engineering to prototype and deliver complex systems. Based in Asheville, NC, he combines academic rigor with maker instincts, recently applying those skills to robot vehicles and real-time telemetry systems.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Arts (ABD) English and Women's Studies, Doctor of Arts (ABD) English and Women's Studies at University at AlbanyPh.D. (ABD) Cultural Studies and Sociology, Ph.D. (ABD) Cultural Studies and Sociology at The Graduate Center, City University of New YorkPhilosophy, Philosophy at State University of New York at Plattsburgh
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Github Skills (72)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
robreuss/VirtualGameController
Nov 2015 - Nov 2018
Software-based game controllers for iOS, tvOS, OS X and watchOS in Swift 4.2.
Contributions:1 release, 210 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 1 month
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robreuss/VirtualGameControllerFramework
Oct 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:121 releases, 129 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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